Joshua Lederberg

1 milestone · 1965

Joshua Lederberg is featured for contributions to AI through DENDRAL: The First Expert System in 1965 during The Birth of AI.

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DENDRAL: The First Expert System

DENDRAL automated chemical structure determination from mass spectrometry data. It used heuristic rules from domain experts to solve problems that normally required PhD-level expertise. Its successor Meta-DENDRAL could even generate new rules automatically.

Edward FeigenbaumJoshua LederbergStanford University

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